November 1969: ‘It just changed everything’
At spring workouts in 1969, U-M’s new head football coach Glenn E. ‘Bo’ Schembechler unleashed volcanic intensity on his new charges. He told them their overarching aim was to beat Ohio State on Nov. 22. The national press gave the Wolverines absolutely no chance against OSU. But the national press didn’t know Bo.
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Michigan fan saved after wife recognizes stroke at football game
Scott Everett arrived at the hospital within 30 minutes of his first symptoms. Imaging showed a clot in his brain’s middle cerebral artery, a major vessel that supplies blood to parts of the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes. It is the most common artery involved in acute ischemic stroke.
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For Mike Mosallam, the ‘particular is contained in the universal’
As a first-generation Arab-American Muslim, Tony-winning producer/director/writer Mosallam has found his niche by transforming the seemingly specific into the universally resonant.
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Fifth- and sixth-generation Indigenous basket weavers sustain Native art forms amidst vanishing resources
“In Our Words: An Intergenerational Dialogue” features the works of contemporary artists Kelly Church and Cherish Parrish. Their traditional basket weaving material — black ash trees — are being attacked by an invasive species of beetle, the emerald ash borer, which kills the trees by eating the tissue under the bark.
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Civil solutions: Clinic lifts legal burdens for veterans
Since opening in 2015, the Veterans Legal Clinic at the U-M Law School has provided free services to clients in such civil matters as family law (divorce, custody, support, and visitation), eviction, consumer problems, foreclosure, and employment cases. As a population, veterans have a disproportionately high need for attorneys in these legal areas.
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24 reasons to feel hopeful about the future
It’s easy to get caught up in doom and gloom, but glimmers of hope abound. LSA alums, faculty, students, and staff are creating positive change in the lives of people, animals, and the planet. They remind us that hope can come in many forms—even a bowl of yak butter.
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In 10 seconds, AI model detects cancerous brain tumor often missed during surgery
The technology works faster and more accurately than current standard of care methods for tumor detection and could be generalized to other pediatric and adult brain tumor diagnoses. U-M neurosurgeons believe it could serve as a foundational model for guiding brain tumor surgery going forward.
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